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The elite sniper shot dead the terrorist chief with what senior defence sources said was a shot achieved at a range of more than 1,500m with a window of opportunity of just 15 seconds. A source said: “The shot was one in a million. Getting a one-round, one-kill head shot at night using thermal imagery in a 15-second target window is about as close to impossible as you can get but he pulled it off. “He is definitely the best sniper around at the moment.” The British serviceman is understood…

ADRIAN Lamo, a computer hacker who turned in whistleblower Chelsea Manning to law enforcement, has died aged 37. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange blasted the hacker yesterday after he rumbled then-Bradley Manning for passing on military material to be published on the leak website. The cause of Lamo’s death has not yet been made public, but a Sedgwick County coroner in Kansas, where Lamo lived, confirmed the news last night. But as family members paid tribute to the computer expert, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange described Lamo as a “petty conman and…

Security experts have warned of a serious new nation-state developed malware threat, dubbed Slingshot. Kaspersky Labs researchers identified the new malware, which infects an internet router, before stealing data from computers connected to the network. Researcher say the malware is so sophisticated, it can only have been developed by a nation-state. In a report on Slingshot, researchers said: “The malware is highly advanced, solving all sorts of problems from a technical perspective and often in a very elegant way, combining older and newer components in a thoroughly thought-through, long-term operation,…

Theranos, a once-promising company that set out to revolutionize blood testing, was dealt a massive blow Wednesday when it was charged with fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC has charged Theranos, company founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes (above) and former President Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani with fraud. Getty The charges, which were also filed against company founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes and former President Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, allege false promises surrounding a portable blood analyzer. The SEC says the parties raised more than $700 million from investors between 2013…

James Mattis’ words come as Iraq gears up to decide who country’s leader will be for the next four years. Among Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s challengers are former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and Hadi al-Amiri, a former transportation minister. Both Maliki and Amiri are among Iran’s closest allies in Iraq. Mr Mattis said: “We have worrisome evidence that Iran is trying to influence – using money – the Iraqi elections. “That money is being used to sway candidates, to sway votes. “It’s not an insignificant amount of money, we…

GETTY MPs have said England should consider boycotting the summer’s football world cup Some called for an urgent parliamentary debate on whether the England team should take part in the contest. And there were calls for the Football Association to consider unilaterally pulling out. The World Cup calls intensified last night as international support for Theresa May’s tough response to the Kremlin following the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia grew. France, Germany and the US all backed a joint statement with the Government abhorring the attack…

She claimed $100 million in revenue in 2014. It was really $100,000 More On Wednesday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes and former president and chief operating officer Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani with “massive fraud.” Theranos, a blood testing company, claimed that it could perform a wide-range of laboratory tests using just a finger prick’s worth of blood. The company was founded in 2003 by then-19-year-old Holmes, a Stanford dropout who was once seen as a Silicon Valley wunderkind. The claims, if true, would…

Her body shaking and tears flowing, Maghul is the epitome of what it means to be among the latest crop of war victims in Afghanistan. Taliban militants came to her town in central Wardak province in mid-2017, and during battle with the Afghan police, burned her home and killed her husband, a farmer who was out “doing his daily routine,” she says. So Maghul had no choice but to escape with her two grown sons and join the ranks of nearly half a million internally displaced people (IDPs) who fled…

HELSINKI — Fans of skiing, saunas and Santa Claus won’t be surprised to hear Finland is the happiest place to live. The World Happiness Report published Wednesday ranked 156 countries by happiness levels, based on factors such as life expectancy, social support and corruption. Unlike past years, the annual report published by the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network also evaluated 117 countries by the happiness and well-being of their immigrants. Keskuskatu street in the center of Helsinki, Finland. zoom-zoom / Getty Images file Europe’s Nordic nations, none particularly diverse, have…

Luis Contreras, a doctor who lives and works in a building just south of the border fence that separates the United States from Mexico here, was playing a game on his computer late one night when an eruption of gunfire jolted him. He quickly turned off all the lights to avoid being hit, and, once the shooting stopped, cautiously peeked through the door. On the darkened sidewalk below, he could make out the figure of a person lying face down. “He wasn’t moving,” Dr. Contreras recalls. Moments later, at 11:35…